THOUMAS. General. Les Anciennes armées françaises. Retrospective military exhibition of the Ministry of War in 1889. Paris, France. Launette. 1890. 8 volumes, large in-4, red half-percaline, leaves in publisher's folders. folders. This work, illustrated with 18 plates, was published on the initiative of the organizers of the Exposition Universelle Universal Exhibition to "make known to current generations what the French army has been like from its origins to the eve of the 1870 war".